among their demands, ten trillion dollars in climate related infrastructure plans. and the creation of a civilian climate court which would be part of a jobs program to combat the climate crisis. so what is at stake this week ahead of some critical votes? let's begin with philip bump, a national correspondent for the post. let's start with the stand today. what are the prospects for these two bills look like? does it look strong in terms of passage for either? or neither? or both? >> that's a great question. and one of the things we haven't seen a lot of is a good thing on this. whipping is the process of actually counting the votes to come into play. one of the big questions is always surrounded by the partisan bill is not only will republicans lineup in agree with this at least enough to prevent being filibuster which is to say ten republicans about all democrats will actually -- there is some concern in some parties that there will actually be sums democrat